{"id":22507,"date":"2017-09-02T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22507"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T16:22:34","slug":"our-sedums-attract-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22507","title":{"rendered":"Our sedums attract the bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the sedums at this time of year. They add a bit of late colour to the garden and they attract the bees. There are bees all over them. They are mostly honey bees and what we call &#8220;teddy bear bees&#8221;. We don&#8217;t know what these bees are called but they appear to be furry which is why we call them teddy bears.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22531\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22531\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22531\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22531\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bess_on_the_sedum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bess_on_the_sedum.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bess_on_the_sedum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bess_on_the_sedum-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey bees on the sedum<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22532\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22532\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22532\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22532\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teddy_bear_bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teddy_bear_bee.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teddy_bear_bee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/teddy_bear_bee-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teddy bear bee<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22533\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22533\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22533\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/more_bees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/more_bees.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/more_bees-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/more_bees-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both type of bee<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22534\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22534\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22534\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/sedum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/sedum.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/sedum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/sedum-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sedum with honey bees<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22535\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22535\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22535\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22535\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/honey_bee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/honey_bee.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/honey_bee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/honey_bee-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sedum with both sort of bees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love both the splash of colour and the bee activity and the sedums also go on looking good right through autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the sedums at this time of year. They add a bit of late colour to the garden and they attract the bees. There are bees all over them. 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